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32
Rating of
Small Property
Upon the recommendation of the Rating
Committee the Council passed the following
resolutions with reference to the rating of and composition
allowance to owners of small property, viz.:—
That the owners of all rateable hereditaments situate within the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to which section 4 of the Poor
Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, extends shall be rated
in respect of such rateable hereditaments, instead of the occupiers, on
all rates made after this date or, where agreements have been entered
into with the Overseers of the several parishes in the said Borough,
after the expiration of such agreements.
That if the owner of one or more such rateable hereditaments
shall give notice to this Council in writing that he is willing to be
rated for any term not being less than one year in respect of all such
rateable hereditaments of which he is the owner, whether the same
be occupied or not, such owner be allowed, in addition to the abatement
or deduction of fifteen per cent. from the amount of the rate
provided by section 4 sub-section 1 of the said Act, a further
abatement or deduction of ten per cent. from the amount of the
rate during the time he is so rated.
The practice in this matter, as in many other
matters, varied in the different parishes in the Borough.
The following Parliamentary Bills have been considered
during the year, viz.:—
1. London County Council (Tramways and Street Widenings).
2. ,, „ „ Tramways (No. 2).
3. London United Tramways.
4. London Water (Purchase of Companies).
5. Metropolitan Water Companies (Amendment of Acts).
6. Thames Piers and River Service.
7. London Brighton & South Coast Railway (Various Powers),
8. South Metropolitan Gas.
9. Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to Children.
10. Medical Officers of Health and Sanitary Inspectors.
11. Public Health.
12. Sites Values (London) Rating.
13. Local Authorities' Officer's Superannuation.
14. Gas Light and Coke Company.
15. Borough Funds Act Amendment.
16. Wandsworth and Putney Gas.